There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon.

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.

To be your companion.""Companion?" He said the word as if he were spitting a bad taste from his mouth. "I am a killer. A monster! Can you not see that?

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!